@article{Itti_etal02cnm,
  author = {E. Itti and K. Huff and M. E. Cornford and L. Itti and K. Poruri and F. S. Mishkin},
  title = {Postinfectious encephalitis: A coregistered SPECT and magnetic resonance imaging study},
  abstract = {An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized for acute headaches, lethargy, and left hemiparesis. A lumbar puncture showed polymorphonuclear leukocytes, but cultures re-mained negative. Flow-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed, as was brain SPECT using Tc-99m hexamethylpropylene amineoxime (HMPAO). Anatomic and functional images were coregistered using a unique surface-matching technique. Subsequently, biopsy of a large right frontal lobe lesion was performed. Pathologic examination and electron microscopy showed degeneration of cortical neurons and associated arenavirus-like particles. Whether this caused the disease or represented release by dying neurons of previously present particles remains uncertain.},
  keywords = {Arenavirus ; Brain SPECT ; Coregistration ; Encephalitis},
  journal = {Clinical Nuclear Medicine},
  volume = {27},
  number = {2},
  year = {2002},
  month = {Feb},
  pages = {129-130},
  file = {http://iLab.usc.edu/publications/doc/Itti_etal02cnm.pdf},
  type = {med},
  if = {2000 impact factor: 0.399}
}